Jewellery Trends In Different Countries And Cultures

10 06 2009
This week we are going to take a look at jewellery trends in different cultures and countries.  We will of course look back at history to see how it helped mold the jewelry fashion industry into what it is today.  Tiffany Co is always leading to the trend of modern jewelry world. We will focus on specific countries throughout this week and then showcase of few of Gilbert and Frech’s uniquely original designs and see how the influence of style and culture helped to create them. Some of the earliest pieces of jewellery that were created out of precious metals and gemstones were found in the country of Egypt.  Egyptians mainly used gold and fashioned many items out of this very malleable metal such as armlets, bracelets, head adornments, rings, earrings and even collars.  Some tiffany designer get the inspiration of tiffany earrings from Egypt.

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Greece also was making their own fashion trends during the BC era and the trend at that time was using beads and designing them into shapes that represented nature such as flowers, shells or beetles.  Greece was wealthy with raw materials and started adorning their  jewelry with precious gemstones such as rubies, emeralds and pearls.  Pearls became the most prized and precious gemstone in jewelry, as well as in tiffanys.  The most rare and beautiful were found in South India and the Persian Gulf.  During the 17th century is when jewelry became an adornment that was acceptable in everyday use.  France was a great influence on the jewelry industry during the early 1800’s.  Victorian jewelry became popular as Queen Victoria reigned and it began to be massed produced and sold all over the world.  During the 1950’s America made its mark with what people would refer to as the Hollywood influence. Over the years many countries had their influence over the style and trends of Jewelry.  As it was created and shipped to different parts of the world, other cultures added their own unique flare.  It will be fun to take a look this week at specific countries and see what the popular jewelry trend is in their culture today!  Will it be similar to what is popular here in America or will it be completely unique and different?  The world has become smaller with the birth of the internet.  We can get our favorite tiffany jewellery from the net with some clicks to the mouse. Every kind of information is available to us know with just the tapping of our fingertips.  Just like that, we can type in and order whatever kind of tiffany rings or other kinds we like from whatever country or culture we want.  It is truly an amazing thing.

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Six Legends Of The Jewellery

9 06 2009
  • Tiffany Co has been renowned for its luxury goods, especially jewelry. Tiffany also has been seeking to market itself as a leader of taste and style. It designs, produces, and sells jewelry, watches, and crystal glassware.
  • The Legend of earrings 
       In ancient Greece,a girl had a disease with the eyes, soon she lose sight. Later on,luckily  she met with a famous doctor and he promised to cure her eyes ,with the approval of the girl, he pricked both earpieces aside with the shiny needles ,then the miracle appeared and  the girl could see again.She was very grateful to the doctor and then she asked a silversmith to make a pair of delicate earrings in order to show that she would never forget the doctors forever. She became more beautiful When wearing the silver earrings, besides the famous doctor’s name was always on her lips. As the miracle spreaded all over the country , many many rich girls and women wore earrings as the girl did ,and this is very popular today ,what’s more ,it become a symbol of noble identity. Welcome to see some luxurious Tiffany Earrings.

 

  • The legend of ring

 1. idea of savage It is said that it is the result of despoil marriage in ancient period,at that time, the man always rub women from the other tribal ,then they wore shackles on the body of women . After many years of evolution, the shackles became engagement, wedding rings,and the rings mean that the man has owned the woman. 

2. idea of worship Rings derived from the ancient worship for the sun,and the ancient rings were made of jades symbolizing the gold round of the sun, and the people considered that the rings stand for the Titan which gives warm, shelters the happiness and peace of huaman being , besides, a symbol of virtue and eternal, truth and belief. At the wedding, the groom wears a gold ring symbolizing the fiery red sun; the bride wears silver rings, which is a symbol of the bright moon.   

 

 

  • The Legend of necklaces

    Necklaces originated from the marriage by capture custom which exsited in primitive shift period from matriarchal clan to patriarchal clan. During the obey-the-husband system , the man often plundered women from other tribes or captured the woman in the war as their own wives. In case these women fled away, the winners often wore the women a metal chain or rope trap on their necks,and finally the chains and the traps turned into today’s necklaces. Do you want to wear nice Tiffany necklaces and show yourself?

 

  • The Legend of bracelets 

The bracelet is considered as an arm ornament,and it is also an expression of beauty, however many scientists believe that the emergence of the initial bracelets is not entirely because of The love for beauty, otherwise it has relation with the worship for totem and  witchcraft rituals. At the same time, historians have believed that the man have absolute dominance in economic life in ancient times, so the rings and bracelets or other accessories have a metaphor of stopping the women fom fleeing away,what’s more, This metaphorical remains up to now.

The bracelets already had a decoration function in the Neolithic Age, not only the surface was polished smoothly, but also some of them had simple patterns on the surface. The bracelets were mainly made of jade in Shang and Zhou period, the fashion of the bracelets and the color of the jades were both very colorful. Except the ones made of jade, metal bracelets also appeared in this period. After the Western Han Dynasty, arm bracelets were very popular with the people due to the impact of culture and customs of the western regions, and the style of the bracelets is very rich,too. When it comes to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the gold bracelets inlaid jewels were very prevalent,besides there had been substantial developments in the production process and the style of jewellery. More beautiful tiffany bracelets here.

  • The legend of the diamond

     Since ancient times, the diamond is a dream, an ideal and image to every person. However, because diamond comes from different regions and has different age and cultural background, it also has particular meanings to everyone. For some people, it is the behalf of power, wealth, status, success, otherwise, for other people it may stands for love, Eternity, purity and faithfulness. These different images are intertwined with religious myths, the oldest scientific speculation and businessmen’s fictions and so on. Although they are very complex, they are not inconsistent and they are also the shapes of the man who love for diamonds , fight for diamonds even die for diamonds. Historically,the diamonds’ bright and light ever illuminated the lover's eyes ,became into a sharp knife to kill people; besides,it was ever the torch of the conqueror, the gloomy candleholder of the Tyrant to step down.

  • The magic of myths

     The ancient Greeks believed that diamonds are the scraps of the stars fallen down to the earth, some people even thought diamonds are tears of god; At one time the people thought diamonds are from holy water. Up to today, the modern advanced science tell us that the diamonds are not from the sky but from the soil. More tiffany accessories are disigned for our convenience. Welcome to tiffanyfree.

       
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